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e-Purjee & its Implementation in Bangladesh: Prospects & Problems
MIS 305
Spring, 2011
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Md. Ziaul Haque
Lecturer
Department of Business Administration
East West University
Dear Sir:
Here is the assignment on “e-Purjee & its Implementation in Bangladesh: Prospects & Problems” that I
am supposed to do for the Enterprise Information Systems (MIS-305) course.
As you will see, our observations pointed out to some specific aspects of e-Purjee such as its history,
present condition, problems, prospects so on. Through this assignment I tried to explore these aspects to
a certain extent. This assignment really helped me to know about the Purjee. Actually I had no idea
what really the word Purjee means. And it also helps me to understand the system how the e-Purjee
works.
I appreciate having this assignment. I really enjoyed myself while doing this assignment.
I am grateful to you for assigning me such a report. I am looking forward to your evaluation.
Sincerely Yours,
ID # 2009-1-10-106
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1. Introduction 4
2. History 5
3. Present condition 6
4. Problems 10
5. Prospects 11
6. Recommendation 12
7. Conclusion 13
8. Reference 14
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Need of Purjee
Now lot of might think why do we need Purjee or in other word whey do sugar mills have to ask to
deliver sugar can. Why not the farmers deliver when their sugarcanes are ready?
The answer lies in the sugarcanes. Sugarcanes are such type of crop which contains water and sugar
inside of it. The moment you cut it from the soul it will start loosing its water inside it. And without
this water it is not possible extract sugar by crushing it. On other word it will be useless. So after
plucking sugarcanes farmer have to deliver and super mills have to crush it in order to get maximum
sugar out of it.
Our age old sugar mills don’t have the sufficient machineries so that they can crush all the sugarcanes
at a time. Or whenever the farmer comes up with their sugarcane they cant purchase it because they
don’t have that much crushing machineries neither they can’t storage it because as long they will store
it in ware house it will loose its productivity . Or even if the sugar mills want to store it they can’t
because they don’t have enough facility to store it.
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That’s where the idea of Purjee came in. Because as long as the sugar cans are in the field its safe there
and when the sugar mills need sugar can they ask for it they ask to farmers to deliver. But there is a
problem too. To understand this problem we need to analyze the history, we need to know how this age
old Purjee system works.
In the website of Digital Bangladesh they said “Long before the time of independence, the Purjee
system was introduced”. Purjee is a piece of paper delivered by the mills employee to farmers. Mills
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ask for sugarcane by sending Purjee. Normally after issuing date of Purjee mills expect to get the
sugarcane with in 3 days. With in 3 days farmer has to deliver his/her sugarcane. So in graphically it’s
like that.
Deliver it
Thorugh Farmer
Sugarmills Issue Farmer gets the Farmer pluck the
massenger to deliver the
Purjee Purjee sugarcane
farmer hand to Sugercane
hand
Fig 1: The standard process of delivering Purjee and in return getting sugarcane.
But not everything is that simple. Generally it’s a good idea but when it comes to rural area it very
difficult. Country like Bangladesh where there are lacks of transportation, lack of man power, lack of
responsibility, corruption and there is lots of problem that cause serious damage in the Purjee system.
It’s clear that there are some problems in this system lets take some of it:
1. Lack of man power farmer might not get the Purjee on time
2. Lack of good transportation farmer might not get Purjee on time.
3. Lack of responsibility of deliver might cause the same situation.
4. Because of corruption the deliver might sell the Purjee to another person.
5. Farmer might not present at time of delivering Purjee as a result the Purjee will not deliver.
6. Though farmer gets the Purjee on time he/she might not deliver on time and blame that he
didn’t get the Purjee which cause loss off sugar mills.
7. This hand to hand delivery system is costly because sugar mills have to pay for their employee.
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Because of the limitation that the age old Purjee system has our government comes up with a new idea.
The new idea is to using the information technology. And this new Purjee system is called e-Purjee.
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Today total 15 sugar mills are using e-Purjee system including Rajshahi, Rangpur, Kushtia, Panchagar
etc. The idea of e-Purjee is very simple if you thinks straight. But inside it it’s a bit complex actually.
e-Purjee
First of all e-Purjee is nothing but replacing the manually delivered paper Purjee bye using mobile
Short Massage Service (SMS). As we talked in the first part of this paper that Purjee is nothing but a
paper, which is asking farmers to deliver his/her sugarcane with in three days. Like old fashioned
Purjee this e-Purjee also ask for the sugarcane. But in spite of manually delivering the paper e-Purjee
use SMS.
Fig 2: Standard process of delivering e-Purjee and in return sugar mills gets the sugarcane.
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Computer
&
e-Purjee 3 trained
software personnel
Internet
Connection
e -Purjee System
Before starting the e Purjee system every farmer trained to get use to this e-Purjee system. Bangladesh
Food & Sugar Industry conducted these training programs. They consult with the farmers and sugar
When framers are familiar and sugar mills are ready with the technology and trained manpower. In the
crushing time of sugarcane in spite of delivering traditional hand to hand delivering Purjee sugar mills
use technology the send SMS to the main server of e-Purjee system, that they need sugarcane. Then
form the main server the respective farmers of this sugar mills are notified that they have to deliver the
sugarcane with in 3 days. This massage also contain name of farmers, pass book number, how many
sugarcane he/she have to deliver, where to deliver.
Not only the delivering the sugarcane but also getting payment of there sugarcane, getting loan,
fertilizer and other supports are possible through this e-Purjee system.
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• Combintaion of
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• Computer
• E-Purjee software
• Internet Connection
e-Purjee system • 3 trained personnel
• Scanner (Optional)
• Suger mills collects data of all of its units farmers (there are usally 80-120 unit in each sugar mills.)
• Collected data stored in to the server of respective sugar mills.
Data collection
• e-Purjee not only help sugar mills to get sugarcane or help farmers to inform about delivering it also
help farmers to get paid easily.
• When a farmer provide sugarcane in time sugar mills sarver save those data about the farmers. And
Payment when payment time comes they sugar mills informs farmer to collect the payment.
•Not only the payment but also information about loan, fartilizer, any kind of information can be retrive
&
through this e-Purjee system.
Help
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In 2009 to 2010, 15 sugar mills have been digitalized and successfully using the e-Purjee system. These
sugar mills didn’t stops for one day after implementing e-Purjee where it was very usual that because of
lack of sugar mills is use to stops its production.
Problems of e Purjee
Like any other technological advancement in place of age old traditional process creates problem so
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1. Mobiles are costly even if it’s very cheap now a days but not every farmer might not have the
capability of buying cell phone or maintain cell phone.
2. Because of lack of knowledge not every farmer can operate mobile phone.
e-Purjee & its Implementation in Bangladesh: Prospects & Problems
3. There are only few farmers who know English and main medium of mobile language is English
4.
so there is lack of communication gap.
In the rural areas mobile network is not as good as we use to in urban area.
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5. Mobile operators might not feel interested or might charge extra for the service. In some extend
they might make delay on forwarding the SMS.
6. In rural areas there are lack of electricity in rural are because mobile is an electronic device
farmers might not able to receive the SMS on time.
7. Electronic devices are vulnerable because of some device failure in sugar mills they might not
send e Purjee on time which could be devastating.
8. Not only device failure but also virus, attack by Black Hat Hacker might cause even farther
damage that beyond imagination. For example: by hacking For example: by hacking the system
hacker might be ask farmers to deliver sugarcanes but while they will try to deliver it would
create a chaos.
9. Lack of trained operator on mills could create same problem.
10. This e Purjee system need internet connection and because mills normally rural areas so better
internet connection would be a matter that mills should worry about and though it is connected
there is no guarantee of connection when needed.
Prospects
Today’s world is fast now a days delivering Purjee through hand to hand manually is unimaginable,
though its bit late but we have the technology now. This technology will come up with new dimensions
here are some future possibilities
1. This e Purjee system will increase the productivity of sugarcanes because sugarcanes will be
crushed on time.
2. It will help sugar mills to save their cost of delivering traditional Purjee
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3. It will help farmers to pluck sugarcane on time and delivering without any hassle and baseless.
4. It will help sugar mills to continue their operation continuously with out any break.
5. Any kind of emergency situation sugar mills can contract with farmers to not deliver the
sugarcanes so that both farmers and sugar mills can save the loss.
Recommendations
The problems of this new e-Purjee system should be solved. Developers of this system should consider
the target users; target users are rural peoples who have barely education. Some problems can be solved
easily by the developers of this e-Purjee system and some needs assistance of government.
Recommendations are:
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government should think of providing small solar device so that mobiles can be recharged.
8. There always should be back up computers and other devices so that device failure will not
create chaos.
9. The security of e-Purjee should be very high because without it farmers will loose hope. There
should be trained people for maintaining the security of main and sub servers against hackers.
And they should conduct inspection on sugar mills frequently.
10. Sugar mills operators should be trained to complete the required work.
11. Availability of high speed internet and there should be back up on internet connection in case of
emergency.
12. And more importantly government should be pro active and egger to help.
Conclusion
When the world is running fast through information and technology we are starting to introduce with it.
Though too late to implement these kind of technology but good thing is we are thinking digital. Even
our farmers who barely have education are welcoming the change of the age old technology. They are
not afraid that’s where our strength we are not afraid of change that’s why we can achieve the toughest
goals what we need is the minimum assistance from the government. Assistance that will create new
innovation like e-Purjee.
Surely farmers and sugar mills will be benefited by this new technology. This e-Purjee will make their
life easy and will motivate them. The proper use of resources will be ensuring. And the general
consumer will beneficial. Though this system is not fool proof, eventually no system is. But we have to
try at least.
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Available: http://www.digitalbangladesh.gov.bd/blog.php?ID=462
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5. Chaudhary, N. (2011). . Prothom-Alo.28 January. P36
from: http://www.epurjee.info/Implementation.php